The Press: Exclusion Act

After trying for more than a year to get a staff man permanently
accredited to Moscow, the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 340,430)
finally managed to do it in 1947, thanks to Tourist Harold Stassen.

He put in a good word with Premier Stalin himself (TIME, April 28,
1947). The Trib's new correspondent was Joseph Newman, veteran of the
Japan and Argentina beats, who was already in Russia as a special correspondent
for the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and just
stayed on.

Last June Newman left for Paris to take a vacation and get married,
after Soviet Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev...